Beckets Place

Beckets Place is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century, with alterations from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber framed, featuring plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. The building has an open hall consisting of one timber-framed bay, with a very narrow bay or subdivision at the south end, which adjoins a cross-passage. The end bays are storeyed, with the south end subdivided to contain an undershot cross-passage. The hall is floored, likely with a timber stack in the south end subdivision, dating from the 16th or early 17th century.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a garret, set on a painted stone plinth, and is close-studded. The east elevation, which was formerly the rear but is now the front, features a jettied north gable end and an underbuilt jetty at the south gable end. The first floor is partly rendered and includes one arch brace to the south end bay and one to the cross-passage subdivision. The roof is half-hipped to the south and hipped to the north, with a brick ridge stack straddling the south end of the hall and the cross-passage.

The fenestration is irregular, comprising three windows: one four-light diamond mullion window with a pegged cill at the south end bay, one four-light casement window in the hall, and one latticed casement window with a pegged cill at the north end bay. There is a tall blocked five-light diamond mullion window towards the centre of the hall, likely the north half of the original 15th-century hall window.

The entrance features a ribbed door with a four-centred arched architrave at the north end of the south end bay, beneath an open wooden porch. There is also a doorway with hollow spandrels at the west end of the cross-passage. Inside, the framing is exposed, with a moulded and brattished beam at the north end of the hall and a close-studded partition beneath it. A moulded and brattished spear with an integral post and panel protrudes from the beam. The north end of the hall has rebated principal posts, and there is evidence of a central "service" door or doors leading to the south end room. The inserted floor features a chamfered axial beam and joists. The hall has a fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a cambered wooden bressumer, while a 18th-century fireplace is located on the south side of the stack, encroaching on the cross-passage.